Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited. Mary Baker Eddy (The First Church of Christ,...
Tom Taffel Articles
Special Edition – New & Updated Information for EI Conference in Colorado – 06/06/2013
The previous years I had worked at Sportsman’s Valley Guest Ranch, where the owners, Hortense and Preston Beaver, who were Christian Scientists, were . . . talkative, customer oriented, and always full of a bright, positive, Mary Baker Eddy lightness that was...
Leaving it to God—or to chance?
As an undergraduate at Rochester Institute of Technology, I was required to take a course in statistical analysis. Although the course was rather forgettable, one concept intrigued me: “Poisson Probability,” the work of Siméon-Denis Poisson in the 1830s. Poisson was...
“Time, the world’s greatest illusion”
What if you were to resolve things into thoughts and not think of a sunset as a daily event which takes place at a predictable time, but as an experience, a different dimension, unbounded by time; a quality of beauty and not a predictable, measured event? Wouldn’t...
Election Follow Up
This election was one of the most important in my lifetime. With so much at stake, I turned to the Christian Science Hymnal for comfort and healing. Hymn 292, “The Dutch Hymn of Thanksgiving” with words by Maria Louise Baum, gave me hope and joyous expectation...
“God: The Producer and Director”
“God: The Producer and Director” By Tom Taffel Christian Science Sentinel June 19, 1971 Volume 73, Number 25 There were almost too many reasons why I couldn’t make a motion picture for Pan American World Airways. I was a college student without financial...
Forgiveness
Forgiveness and healing By Tom Taffel From the Christian Science Sentinel - April 18, 2012 Forgiveness promotes healing, and healing supports forgiveness; they are two different sides of the same coin. Unforgiving thoughts foster fear, hatred, and, on a...
Animal Magnetism for Dummies
Let’s be clear….animal magnetism is nothing; it’s not real and it has no power -- because it does not exist in reality. It has no more cause, substance, law or power than the false belief that 2 + 2 = 5 … (which, admittedly, can be problematic if you happen to...
“Love alone is life” – A Testimony by Tom Taffel
My work was cut out for me….get rid of the fear, my fear, Jess’ fear, the hospital staff’s fear. We read in the Bible that “Perfect love casteth out fear.” And that’s exactly what I needed to see in place of the morbid human picture; perfect love. ...
“Crisis at Ho Chi Minh International Airport: God’s Law vs. International Law”
With only two hours until flight time, we found ourselves in a crisis at Saigon’s Ho Chi Minh City International Airport - while leading a group of twenty-eight Americans to visit Cambodia’s ancient temples of Angkor Wat. Upon checking in, Vietnam Airlines informed...
